Summary
Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of stories in our lives
In February 2012, the novelist Ali Smith delivered the Weidenfeld lectures on European comparative literature at St. Anne’s College, Oxford. Her lectures took the shape of this set of discursive stories. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted—literally—by a former lover, the writer of a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593687581 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593687582 |
| Author: | Ali Smith |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 283g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 133mm x 19mm |
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About The Author
Ali Smith
ALI SMITH is the author of many works of fiction, including, most recently, Companion Piece, the “Seasonal Quartet,” Public library and other stories, and How to be Both, which won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. Her work has four times been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Most recently, she won the George Orwell Prize for Fiction for Summer. Born in Inverness, Scotland, she lives in Cambridge, England.
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